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Trump vs. Clinton: Voters divided over ACA but 66 percent favor public option

Healthcare IT News: Participants in a recent poll are split on what they hope the next President will do with the Affordable Care Act. That’s not surprising but their responses to a question concerning a public health insurance option were just that.

"As discussions about the challenges facing the (Affordable Care Act) marketplaces continue, about two-thirds of Americans say they favor creating a public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans in the ACA marketplaces," according to the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: October 2016.

Whether that support will continue after the election remains to be seen, however. Kaiser noted that some respondents were open to persuasion when they heard counterarguments, either for against a public option.

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